Jakub Kornhauser (1984) a Polish poet, essayist and translator. He works at the Jagiellonian University as a literature specialist and founded the Centre of Studies of the Avant-Garde there. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen works and the editor of several periodicals and editorial series. He translates avant-garde literature from French, Romanian and Serbian into Polish. In 2016, he was awarded the Wisława Szymborska prize for his collection Drożdżownia. He has recently published a collection of essays entitled Wolność krzepi (2018) as well as the monograph Awangarda. Strajki, zakłócenia, deformacje (2017). He lives in Krakow.